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I love the ideas in the movie version. A train that keeps running so the passengers can survive the end of days. The strong contrasts between the tail and the front are so strong that it reflects the huge differences of wealth in our society right now. If you love the movie, you will definitely love the show. Don't listen to all the other negative reviews here, because they didn't really get it. You have to watch the show to see if this is for you. I give it a 10 because this show has everything I want to see. The show is about the grim reality of being poor (tail). If you are a tail, you are always hungry, you are being treated like trash, and you are mercilessly oppressed. All your protests, struggles and rebellions will only mount to almost nothing. Ring a bell? Because it just feels like the reality. The show is about the happy wealthy lives of being rich (front). If you lives in the front, you get everything you ever need. You wear all the fancy clothes and you are always in charge, but you live in constant fear of unbalance and rebellion. Then the show is also about all others in between. They play their role in the train society and their own concerns determine what they do and what they think. So yeah, the first episode is about a murder, which you have seen plenty, but no reviewers had ever realized that the show is actually not about the murder, but about the differences of people, which I am very eager to explore in the coming episodes.

"My friends, you are listening to this because human race has gotten herself into, well, a little bit of pickle." This is actually quite a good summary of the whole first season of Salvation, but what a pickle it is!

This show raise a serious question, "What human race will do in the face of total annihilation?" If you think all the nations will be united together to face the existential threat, think again. In Salvation, nations (especially US) are extremely selfish and only care about their own survival, and they are happy to throw other ones in the harms way. Well, of course there are main characters work around the clock to bring us a solution, or find a way to easy the tension between nations, but in the whole series they seemed weak against the inner power circle, their methods are so temporary and prone to failure. It was just by some incredibly luck that they made some progress, but still, even at the end of the finale, the big problems were still not resolved.

This show gives us the idea of how frustrating and difficult it is to be on the right side of the history, and what kind of emotional toll it will be if you know the world is ending, but we are still fighting among ourselves. For successfully convey this along I can give it a 9 stars. The details of tech development and feasible future tech definitely worth another star.

Unlike other sci-fi like Scorpion, which throws all those mumbo-jumbo pseudo-science words at you, then apply those fantasy science instantly like pieces of cake, this show actually tells you any science development needs time, even the whole human race is at risk. All the science in this show is well thought-of, advanced but not impossible. The most important piece of tech, the EM drive, cost them great pain and effort to develop, test, learn from failure then finally succeed. The curve seems much more realistic than most of the sci-fi shows. Unfortunately it seems few reviewer noticed it here in IMDb.

I am also quite surprised to see the reviews here bashing the protagonists, and labeling them "stereotypes". The rich arrogant billionaire does have a familiar Elon-Musk feeling at first, but the show gave him much more depth after a few episodes. His brilliance of problem-solving shine through out the whole show, from the first to last. I was a little off by his few unorthodox methods at first, but his no-non-sense direct-to-the-point of thinking grew on me. So in the finale when I know he had been planning to sacrifice himself all along, it was quite touching. I don't see any other show portraits such an arrogant-but-warm-hearted billionaire this well. I think some reviewers here drew conclusions too quickly, before they really knew the characters. So please watch the show with an open heart, don't put any one in a "villain" or "hero" basket too soon, because you will have a few surprises along the road.

Right now I am eagerly waiting for the next season. We should make more of these fast-pace entertaining and touching sci-fi shows, maybe for our own salvation.

Very few documentary can grab your soul like this one does. In the beginning it was simply a bike trip through Ho Chi Ming trail, and a daughter looking for her father's resting place, but when the story goes, it becomes much deeper. In this unforgettable trip you'll see humanity and evil, compassion and love, scar and the healing. You'll see yesterday's enemy becomes today's friend. You see how children are still suffering from the remnants of a senseless war, yet no matter who you are, east or west, rich or poor... we all have the same heart, all care about our families, and all feel the same pain of war.

The photography of this film is extraordinary. Many beautiful scenes of Vietnam and Lao interweave with historic stories, making you realize the connections between the pass and the present. Camera caught a lot of detail of Vietnamese daily lives as well.

The story is simple and straight forward. Don't expect any twists, but due to the good editing I didn't find it boring at all. In fact I couldn't stop watching it once Rebeca started her bike trip. In some points the experience was quite touching.

Highly recommended if you don't hate foreign people, hold no grudges against "commies" and ready for an emotional ride.